Climate averages 1991–2020
Recklinghausen weather
in May.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 5th warmest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a mild month in Recklinghausen: daytime highs average 17.8°C and nights cool to about 9.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 67 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 15 h 36 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Marl (9 km away). In May its highs average 17.9°C, about as warm as Recklinghausen, with 59 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Recklinghausen ranks joint 70th of 120 for the warmest May highs and joint 71st of 120 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 120 cities is 17.9°C; Recklinghausen is level with that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 2.9°C to 20.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 67 mm to 74 mm.
The annual picture
May in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Recklinghausen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 4.9°C0.3°C | 0.3°C | 83 | 14.4 | 8.48 h |
| February | 6.1°C0.4°C | 0.4°C | 69 | 12.5 | 9.910 h |
| March | 9.7°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 71 | 13.5 | 11.812 h |
| April | 14.1°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 55 | 11.5 | 13.814 h |
| May, selected | 17.8°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 67 | 12.4 | 15.616 h |
| June | 20.7°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 74 | 12.6 | 16.617 h |
| July | 22.8°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 89 | 14.0 | 16.216 h |
| August | 22.6°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 85 | 13.3 | 14.615 h |
| September | 18.8°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 74 | 11.7 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.0°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 74 | 12.5 | 10.711 h |
| November | 8.9°C4.2°C | 4.2°C | 75 | 13.7 | 8.99 h |
| December | 5.5°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 89 | 15.0 | 7.98 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
May in nearby cities
- Marl in MayGermany · 9 kmHigh 17.9°C · Low 9.2°C · 59 mm rain
- Castrop-Rauxel in MayGermany · 10 kmHigh 17.8°C · Low 9.0°C · 67 mm rain
- Gelsenkirchen in MayGermany · 14 kmHigh 18.1°C · Low 9.3°C · 62 mm rain
- Bochum in MayGermany · 15 kmHigh 17.7°C · Low 9.0°C · 67 mm rain
- Gladbeck in MayGermany · 15 kmHigh 17.9°C · Low 9.1°C · 62 mm rain
- Dorsten in MayGermany · 17 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 9.3°C · 59 mm rain
- Dortmund in MayGermany · 22 kmHigh 17.7°C · Low 9.0°C · 69 mm rain
- Essen in MayGermany · 22 kmHigh 17.8°C · Low 9.0°C · 62 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Recklinghausen) is explained once on the Recklinghausen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Bochum, Witten and Castrop-Rauxel lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.